Since booking for The Kruger National Park a year ago, I have visited Europe and Australia. I thoroughly enjoyed both those exciting trips but there is nothing to beat a holiday in the bush and having missed out on such a trip last year I was beside myself anticipating this trip to Kruger. Everything was packed and ready and our travelling companions slept over at our house last night and the adventure began at 4:30 this morning. If we thought it was a chilly start we were to get a shock when we hit the Karoo and got out at Laingsburg for breakfast. It was 0 degrees C! Our Wimpy breakfast warmed us and were back into our warm Caravelle enjoying the sunshine warming us through the windows while we pointed out black shouldered kites, pale chanting goshawks, rock kestrels and other birds. We enjoyed the dry, khaki terrain and low mountains and koppies too. Uploading photographs in areas where the coms are slow and reliable is going to be slow and frustrating so I am not going to do a daily blog of this trip. We are  overnighting in a lovely B&B, Duinerus, in Bloemfontein. Margriet provides us with tea, coffee, milk, rusks and the ingredients for breakfast. We ordered pizza for our evening meal and will be off to Kruger early tomorrow – hopefully arriving at Numbi Gate before 4 o’clock. I will save my reports in draft and upload the photos when I return in 3 weeks time and publish them a day at time then, unless by some strange miracle I get good coms in some of the camps! I leave you now with just one through the windscreen pic of The Three Sisters